Nursing Home Neglect Results In Multiple Fractures (December 2011)
N/AOUTCOME: 130,000 settlement
An 88 year-old resident of a nursing home facility was alleged to have been inappropriately assessed for fall risk in light of progressing neuroligic deficits and dementia. As a consequence she had no ... alarm safeguards or direct monitoring when she woke in the night and fell, sustaining hip and wrist fractures.
